Bubble And Scrape

First two songs weren't bad, but what the hell happened after? Hard listen

Why do we need to listen to this?

Least said.....

No - I didn't need to hear that before ... anything!

It puzzles me how much American indie bands sound alike.

I remember a couple of tracks off this album - dreary and depressing - the others too angry to finish listening to

Weder mol so es typisches Noise Rock albom, wie In Utero vo nirvana scho gse esch. Scho das esch e ned so positivi Predestination för mini Bewärtig. Wies halt e so esch habi au do rächt e Reizöberfluetig gha ond das onabhängig vo de Tagesziit. Das chond halt, wemmer probiert möglechst luut z si ond eintersiits alli mögleche Intromänt eifach of einisch spelt, sondern die au so komplett öberstüret (siehe Rockgitarre), dass es au rächt schräg tönt. Eigentlech cha so e öberstüüreti Rockgitarre jo au no cool töne, de mues sie aber gezielt gsetzt si, wasi do öberhaupt ned de Idrock gha ha. Ech ha so au die ruhigere Songs fascht am beschte gfonde. Das ganze dörenand werd i dem Albom de no met rächte Dissonanze kombiniert. Eigentlech ewärs jo fascht ruhiger als In Utero, aber deför halt dissonanter. Au die dissonanz cha t Musig eigentlech mega spannend mache, do hani aber weder de idrock, dass es onzielt ond somet au onpassend esch. So tönts de eifach e chli chrom. Wels de halt ned so spannend esch, fods sech au rächt afo zieh. Dass es 1 Stond lang esch, helft debi au ned bsonders. Es hed sech halt eifach wie es stöndigs Chaos agfühlt woni jetzt fascht froh be dasses döre esch. Aber jetzt gnue negativs! Mer mues jo scho au zuegä dass sie au gueti Riffs do enne hend wo aber halt fascht e chli ondergönd i dem Chaos. Au chonds doch mol vor, dass t Intromänt plötzlech metenand fonktioniered ond so ofne art kommuniziered. Mer cha also säge s potenzial wär do met de riffs ond de abgstommeheit, wärs ned so luut ond so dissonant dass alles weder im Chaos wörd ertrenke.

Me parecen mezclas caóticas que no me despiertan nada positivo

Did not care for this in the least.

I’d rather listen to a rabid raccoon slowly dying in a clothes dryer than that album ever again.

Typical alternative/rock band. All songs sound alike. Kinda boring.

Uhh. Early grunge and industrial. Hard listen. Not for me and unplugged electric guitar is a difficult sound to pull off. NMH did it so much better.

Fine wouldn't listen again. 1.6/10

Mhe ni fu ni fa

The first track was okay. Everything else after that was awful.

Not for me

Not a fan

Unlistenable.

Boring for me, not my style Favourite song: Soul and Fire

I love Dinosaur Jr. I like other Sebadoh albums. I hate this. 1/5

No

Nah.

Bland and poor. Limp indie guitar rock. Puny production. Forgettable songs and base level musicality. I have no idea why this record made this list.

Who is this for lol. The instrumentals are decent, everything else is just too pitchy and noisy for my taste.

I really didn't like this one. There was metal elements I don't enjoy and I felt it sounded too chaotic and discordant at times.

Sigh. Mediocrity wrapped in pretension. Sounds like Frank Zappa if Zappa had a brain injury and forgot how to compose and arrange. Or it can sound like slayer on Xanax. That sounds much better than this relentless tripe. And I’ve nothing against stupid lyrics. But Jesus. ‘Don’t bite me on the arm/ Capricorn rising. ‘ it’s hardly Dylan. Or Jimmy Webb. Or Bernie Taupin. This is brain damaged stupidity. It needs help. Maybe an operation. It’s Boston without the sense of joy. (And Boston is the most joyless band I’ve heard). It’s Zappa without talent. It’s a random selection of nothing hiding behind ‘art’. But we can see the F that belongs on the front of 'Art’ and we can smell it too. 1.5 stars. It gets .5 for the audacity of it. But Minus 1 for the execution. So it’s .5.

This album kinda sucked. Some half-decent songs. Drumming was the best part, but nothing special.

Not for me. Didn’t finish - couldn’t do a full hour of this

Off the bat, they sound like a poor man's Soundgarden or Stone Temple Pilots or insert your favorite 90s grunge alt rock band here. 4 songs through and this just sounds terrible. Telecosmic Alchemy has bad singing and disjointed instrumentals. Fantastic Disaster was a too-on-the-nose name for that song. Everything sounds like it was recorded inside a tin can. 8 songs in and finally a normal sounding song in Sacred Attention. Vocals still suck but at least we have coherent music that jams. There were some songs in the 2nd half that were tolerable like Forced Love and Think, but the bar was so low by that point that average songs like those sounded good. This shit sucked. How did this make the cut? 1 star.

Tough listen. No redeeming qualities for me

Average 90s indie shoegaze feel sorry for myself songs. If I saw them at a festival back then it would’ve inspired me to go get a beer. From Sacred Attention onward they at least show a little bit of energy. Detuning your guitar does not make you automatically interesting. This is like if Pavement stopped giving a shit but got a record deal anyway

Kinda boring

I am displeased to say the least. You mean to tell me this no-man’s-land earbomb of an album deserves its day in the sun? This isn’t charming diy indie, this isn’t a challenge to the listener. Songs 2-4 specifically are just messy. “Happily Divided” is at least something, even though it lives under Nirvanas shadow, both for sounding a lot like it’s making an attempt to sound like Kurt Cobain, and for this being a sub pop release. That gives me a solid reason to be a homer and give this album SOME sort of bias. I found no such reason to do so. This album has an idea of what it wants to be, and has moments of completeness. Lots of intros, like on “Emma Get Wild” give me a vague sense of hope, just for some sloppy vocals and quick-to-stale melodies nosedive it all. I can’t really pick a whole song as a highlight for me. Maybe the halfway point of “Homemade”, having some success actually sounding like proper indie/grunge for a moment. Is this a snapshot of a musical time & place? Sure. Is it worthy of taking a spot on this list over [literally insert your missed album of choice here]? Cmooooon.

Ugh. No thanks.

Aggressively amateurish, at times comically bad, at best hopelessly generic.

It was pretty boring. Nothing much to write about.

"Soul and Fire" +1

Not my cup of tea.

Another 90s lo-fi indie rock album that this list seems to love. There's some elements to note - the first few tracks have a few interesting guitar work. Everything else, though, is just banal vocals and experimentation that goes so far as so it is trying too hard. Best Tracks: N/A Worst Tracks: - Fantastic Disaster - Telecosmic Alchemy Rating: 2/10

mega ikke for mig. Jeg ventede på at den blev færdig

This sounded so bad. I really really hated it.

Boring noise

Horrible

Jesus, these guys have 9 albums! I couldn’t get all the way through 3 songs before tapping out - aural arm bar for the submission. The pain…

Make it stop

I have never heard a song worse than Elixer is Zog and I never will. Every second of this was pure torture.

To whomever wrote in their review: "...Intentionally dissonant poverty tier indie rock..." - I love you. Vindicating all my memories of the worst tendencies of the cynicism of my generation and the lack-of-effort 90s SUPER COOL INDIE SCENE! This is dogshit, and intentional dogshit. They're insulting you. Fking slacker rock. I hate this band. 0/10 0 stars.

1/5

I believe that if an album is going to be listed as one of the 1,001 it should meet some minimum standards. It should be a quality recording. It should have excellent production. The musicians should be competent and the song writing should have some aesthetic qualities. Does an album have to have all of these attributes? Not necessarily. Sometimes a recording is done in such a way to try to capture, say, the band live foregoing what we would typically think of uus "quality". Likewise, an album doesn't have to have the production value and perfectionism of, fore example, Steely Dan or Boston. Musicianship can be a tricky one. Was Kurt Cobain a great guitarist in the same echelon as Les Paul, B.B King or Eric Clapton? No, but he knew his limitations and worked within them to produce something unique. He had competency and then some. Lastly while aesthetics are often in the eye of the beholder, there is usually something about a song that draws the listener in and makes a connection with them. It might be a lyric or a theme or an energy. But there has to be something. Almost all the albums that I’ve heard so far meet the standards I listed above. Perhaps the album has all of these qualities. Perhaps it only has some of them. This album, however, has none of those qualities in my opinion. The songs are monotonous and discordant. The vocals are weak. Musically, the album is just cacophonous. It reminds me of a bunch of guys that got together in high school and learned to play their instruments in their garage or basement. They’re not good enough to do cover songs so they wrote their own material and bang their way through it with what barely passes as musicianship. Then they bought an inexpensive recording device off Alibaba and created a overly saturated demo that they sent to the local radio and cable stations in an effort to try to get a record deal. While they did get that deal, it doesn’t mean they are very good or that the material is very good. It’s simply gives the rest of us talentless hacks hope as we dream to someday play in a band.

I tried. Someone said if Beck fell down the stairs. Early grunge, proto punk?

"how hard could harmonizing be?": The Album. Bad, just bad and annoying all around. If a hallmark of the genre is sounding bad on purpose then maybe its just not good?

Whatever this is it ain't for me. REM but bad.

1 star. Didn’t even make it through the album.

1.5

Probably the less said the better. I really gritted to get through this one. The low-fi 90s bands are all overrated in my opinion. Don't you want to have fun when listening to music? I'm either not fooled or I just don't get it. Really could go either way. Anyway, I never really want to hear this again.

Yeah this is bad. Nirvana if they sucked, Mount Erie if he sucked, sounds like they blended all of their instruments together along with some guy's whiny voice and poured it into an album. Yuck Fav Songs: None

Not my taste at all

not good

Utter, utter shite! Everything about this is utter shite! If I could give it zero stars I would.

Could not get into this

How is this an album you need to listen to before you die. Proper shit.

telecosmic academy might be the worst song I've ever heard never mind the rest of the album from here is also terrible. at least all the songs are quite short so you get a different kind of terrible every couple of minutes. No way out is SHITE A solid 1.5. Whether it gets rated 1 or 2 is solely based on how much I liked the last song. It's a 1!

These guys suuuuuuuuck

Just sounds like harsh noise to me

Didn't enjoy it much.

Scraping the bottom of the bubble barrel. Lazy and shite.

Awful

Not sure I understand the appeal

Depressing Indie-Rock, the opening track "Soul and Fire" sets the mood for the rest of the album unfortunately. There's nothing fantastic about the track "Fantastic Disaster", but it is a disaster.

Pre-listening thoughts: I feel like we’ve been getting a lot of 90s lately. Also an American band - maybe it’ll be different than the sea of brit pop? Post/during listening thoughts: 17 songs is a lot. My perfect album length is 8-15 songs. I think if you’re over that you have things to cut. Woof this is already boring I’m sorry. Distorted guitar and vocals that seem to drone without expression or liveliness. The mixing is dookie. Wow this isn’t just boring it’s straight up terrible! This is the sort of music Mordecai from Regular Show would listen to (also lead singer sounds a little like him imo). Pretty standard indie rock (I am an indie rock hater) 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no. Like why does stuff like this make the list. What makes it so special that I HAVE to hear it. Fav tracks: Happily Divided Least fav tracks: literally all of them (besides any listed in favorites, those are tolerable). I cannot stand this. First two tracks were not the worst but it gets SO MUCH WORSE from there. Convinced people who enjoy this don’t actually like music sorry.

This band sounds like a bunch of 14 year old boys in a garage. The singing and the instruments are frequently out of tune. Much of this album was painful to listen to due to this. I can handle punk style screaming but maybe not in a key that clashes with the guitars. You must listen to this before you die to know that you too, no matter how tone deaf you are, can make an album.

1.5 ok-ish nonsense with some of the worst guitar tones possible

Bubble and Scrape starts off nicely enough with Soul And Fire, a decent indie style tune with some familiar sounds and elements that made me think of a dozen groups that came along later and did similar. Unfortunately, almost everything that comes after that is a mess of out of tune music, terrible singing, misused instruments, all thrown together and excused as lo-fi experimentalism. Happily Divided is the only tolerable song outside of the opener, this doesn't deserve any more than a 1.

get a job 2/10

3.36 rym chitarrino indie di merda individuato mi annoio terribilmente 1/5

Bland and uninteresting

Completely forgettable

1. zoul - 0 2. tuuo yearz - 1 3. alchemy - 0 4. dizazter - 0 5. divided - 1.5 6. zizter - 1 7. cliche - 1 8. zacred - 1 9. elizir - 0 10. uuild - 1 11. zizteen - 0 12. homemade - 0 13. forced - 0 14. out - 0 15. ziren - 1 16. think - 1.5 17. flood - 0

Holy crap whoever put that on a list of any kind was straight smoking crack. If that's music then I'm Prince. This was so bad, the idea that anybody has ever listened to it is ridiculous, and the spins on spotify are proof of this.

1993 alternative. I don’t think they know what lane they’re in. The description says lo-fi folk. It’s not that.

Never heard of this band or heard this album. Bad songwriting performed by bad musicians. Completely forgettable. "There's no need to say a word"

Not for me.

good but not 1001 good first track fav

Just read the band name in Homer Simpson's voice, and you've about summed it up.

Not for me.

erittäin tylsä 46 minuuttia pitkä joka tuntui parilta tunnilta , hlyhytitä biisejä jotka tuntuivat 5+minuuttisilta kaikki. täysin turha listallaolija, verorahoilla maksettaan tälläset listalla ja ei mitään saa takaisin.. kadulle mars.. ehkä kaksi kuunneltavaa biisiä yhteensä seitsemästätoista, ei oikeen voi mitään positiivista tästä puhua, kirjotanpa vaan tekstiä kun muutama rivi kaikissa muissakin arvosteluissa... täytettä turhaan, sokeria sokeria pumppaa pumppaa pumppaa pumppaa sacred attention

I kept waiting in hope that I’d like one of the songs, I’m afraid that never happened. I’d never heard of these guys before and I think that’s for a very good reason.

I hate this kind of music. An absolute mess. Garbage mixing, weak ass vocals, meh lyrics, an all around bad experience. Truly a terrible album, which I certainly did not need to listen to. Why is this on the list? There are millions of better albums then this. Disappointing.

trash trash trash trash 1 star

what a load of shit...

Not for me-repetitive and blah

This started strong but on track four, "Fantastic Disaster" (well, they got the title half right) everything dramatically fell apart and never came back together. It's a mess. The whole album is a mess. There's nothing redeeming here, sadly.

On the plus side, this is one of the few albums of the 1001 that I haven't heard before. On the downside, it sucks. Sebadoh sounds to me like they wanted to be a grunge band but they just couldn't figure out the bite that Nirvana or Soundgarden did, and they also couldn't figure out how to be as interesting or introspective as Sonic Youth or other similar bands from the era... AKA Sebadoh suck. A few of their other albums are tolerable, and I thought this was going to be the same way based on the first track, but it was all downhill from there. Garbage album, absolutely should not be included on this list.

Massachusetts grunge? I don’t think so. Didn’t finish

Not my taste

I did enjoy this album, but for my personal taste Wilco is where I’m at.

Hmm, niet voor mij. De eerste song/single vind ik leuk omdat 't meeste pop is. Voor de andere songs ben ik niet kwaad of depressief genoeg vrees ik. Behoorlijk weirde dissonante indie trip, ook een beetje typisch 90's met niet altijd mooie distortions en een harde sound. Weet niet of dit de tand des tijds zal doorstaan.

En saanu kiinni tästä sekoilusta

Sjonge jonge, kan iemand de uitkering van dit stelletje lamstralen stopzetten en ze een baan geven in de betonfabriek of op een callcentrum? Dan doen ze tenminste nog wat nuttigs.

Twee redelijk normale nummers om de luisteraar op het verkeerde been te zetten. En dan begint de pret. Expres lekker vals zingen en wat andere oorpijnigingen erdoor heen. Eens kijken hoe lang iedereen het volhoudt. En dan doen andere(n) (lijstsamenstellers) of het geweldig is, om maar te laten zien dat ze een bijzondere smaak hebben. Ja, dag. Zowel de makers als de inzenders zijn af.

started off fairly inoffensive middle of the road indie, track 3 was unlistenable and from there it just got worse and worse

This group was popular when I was young, but I never really caught on. Listening to it, now, I'm even less impressed. It sounds like college kids trying to be rebellious or moody or rock. Not very genuine nor melodic.

Yeah, nah! 🥲🥲🥲

It's clear that the band tried to create a garage rock vibe, but in some instances, it felt like they ended up with "garbage" instead. While their grunge and indie influences shine through, there are moments when the lo-fi experimentation pushes the boundaries a bit too far, rendering some songs nearly inaudible. It's a shame because there are undoubtedly some hidden gems that echo Nirvana or Pavement within the album that could have shone brighter with a cleaner production. A big 1 for the inaudibles ones.

not for me - name so unpleasant

Not a fan.

So this guy lost creative control of Dinosaur Jr, made his own band, and then was kicked out of DJ. He should have stuck to playing bass in a decent band. Best track: Not found

Didnt do it for me but better than terrible

gross

Soul And Fire - ★★☆☆☆ Two Years Two Days - ★☆☆☆☆ Telescopic Alchemy - ★☆☆☆☆ Fantastic Disaster - ★☆☆☆☆ Happily Divided - ★☆☆☆☆ Sister - ★☆☆☆☆ Cliche - ★☆☆☆☆ Sacred Attention - ★☆☆☆☆ Elixir is Zog - ★☆☆☆☆ Emma Get Wild - ★☆☆☆☆ Sixteen - ★☆☆☆☆ Homemade - ★☆☆☆☆ Forced Love - ★☆☆☆☆ No Way Out - ★☆☆☆☆ Bouquet For A Siren - ★☆☆☆☆ Think (Let Tomorrow Bee) - ★☆☆☆☆ Flood - ★☆☆☆☆

Сознаюсь: на этой неделе я отстал немножко от прослушивания альбомов по графику, потому навёрстываю сразу 4 за один день. Мне не понравилась Металлика. Чисто поставил 2, а не 1, потому что это Металлика. И я рассчитывал на что-то годное дальше, чтобы забыть этот неприятный опыт. Как же я ошибался... Какая же лажа ждала меня здесь. В оправдание этих парней можно только привести здесь слова из Википедии: "...Sebadoh помогли развитию lo-fi музыки, для которой характерна нарочито грязная запись, осуществляемая, зачастую, при помощи простых четырехдороженых магнитофонов". Ну и что мне с этого, конечному слушателю? Как человеку, который вырос в семье фанатов музыки Ленинградского рок-клуба, мне не нужно объяснять, что значит "плохая запись". Но типа музыке Аквариума или Кино это придаёт шарм, а здесь только усугубляет положение бедолаг-музыкантов. Здесь кажется собрались все мои болевые точки: отвратительный вокал, безобразное стерео, какофония в аранжировках... И самое страшное во всей этой истории, что статистика Spotify тоже не оправдывает ребят: больше половины песен имеют менее 100к прослушиваний, это кажется минимум на данный момент. Без этого альбома спокойно можно прожить. Что он в этом списке забыл - непонятно. Как будто просто по блату включили его сюда. Чисто "друзья друзей" или что-то в этом духе. Первая песня наиболее слушабельна, остальное - очень специфический материал.

Ну я хз как это прокомментировать. Примерно здесь проходит моя грань, но все таки что-то позитивное было , 1+

There was maybe one song on this album I liked. The rest was boring at best, complete rubbish at worst.

Not my cup of tea

I was just kinda bored and/or annoyed the whole time. I'm having a hard time thinking about the few moments I may have enjoyed because all I can remember are the parts I cringed at. If I had to choose a track to re-listen to, I might choose Homemade

I dislike this very much. 1.5/5

Ugh. Setting aside the bland first couple of songs that I was merely not enjoying, suddenly there were several songs in a row that were assaulting my ear. This album seemed to vacillate between the bleh and the horrible

I never need to listen to this again. Cliché was the only song worth anything. If I could give this zero stars I would, honestly. So much ugly.

Turned off when the harmonica came in. wtf

Nope.

Eh.

Ach ja ach nee. Die Dissonanz wird mir etwas zu hochprozentig ausgeschenkt. 1.4

Not good

Didn't really care for this one

Yeahnah, not for me. Every time I thought I was getting a normal track, they did something jarring and weird. Fav new track: Think (Let Tomorrow Bee)

Not for me. Don't hate it, some might like it but not me.

The album got worse as it went on. It is not good. No need to listen.

No me gustó nah, algunas canciones se escuchaban como si estuvieran rasguñando una pizarra. Había una canción que la guitarra me rompía los oídos

eh

couldn't get in the mood for this album, was a drag for me personally

Satarts well, but when the trashy tracks arrived, I lost interest